Check here for more detail and feel free to contact the MA program Director, Ye Yuan (yy2402@columbia.edu) if you have any questions.

Please help us support our very own Dorothy Ko for her role in the film The Last City. Tickets will go on sale to the general public on September 11, with early access opportunities for FLC members prior to this date. See details about ticket prices and passes here. Support of the New York Film Festival benefits Film at Lincoln Center in its nonprofit mission to support the art and craft of cinema.

Read the synopsis of the film from the New York Film Festival website below:

The Last City
Heinz Emigholz, 2020, Germany, 100m

“Five distinct cities across the world become the backdrops for a series of spiraling tête-a-têtes in Heinz Emigholz’s ambitious and surprisingly funny film, which moves him ever further away from his documentary origins and into the realms of the uncanny. John Erdman and Jonathan Perel, who appeared in Emigholz’s magnum opus of psychoanalysis and architecture, Streetscapes [Dialogue], kick things off as an archaeologist and a weapons designer discussing war and depression in Israel’s industrial city Be’er Sheva. From there, Emigholz introduces an expansive roster of deadpan performers in dual roles (including Young Sun Han, Dorothy Ko, Susanne Sachsse), interacting in Athens, Berlin, Hong Kong, and São Paulo, and wrestling with issues such as war crimes, racism, family, religion, sex, and cosmology. As Erdman, Emigholz’s surrogate, says, it’s a film of “social taboos, the paradoxical logic of dreams, an infinite round dance.”

Interested in learning more about the EALAC department?

If you would like to learn more about East Asian studies and/or languages, please come to the the Academic Resources Fair on September 2nd!

The 2020 Academic Resources Fair will be held virtually via Zoom. The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures will have its “virtual booths” where you can meet with the representatives from all of the language programs as well as the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Please be sure to stop by and ask lots of questions!

For more information about the Academic Resources Fair, please visit the Columbia College event page here. Zoom meeting links and information for our department will be available and live on September 2nd.

Please see below for our department flyers:

EALAC Flyer 

Chinese Language Program Flyer 

Japanese Language Program Flyer

Korean Language Program Flyer

Tibetan Language Program Flyer 

Vietnamese Language Program Flyer 

 

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